The Road to Happiness
It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. So it is with happiness. If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hangover. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness. If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common.
The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty. The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly.
It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recover, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children’s noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen--a different diet, or more exercise, or what not. Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
what is happiness? if someone has a lot of money, does he really be happy? the two questions point out the relation about money and happiness. today, people treat money the first place in their life, they work hard for making money, because without money, one can’t do a lot of things, indeed, we need money. when people get married, the first thing they do is to get enough money to buy a house, money seems everything. while on my opinion, money can’t buy happiness, i see some guys who are not rich, but they live in a free way, they move everywhere they want, they feel happy. so happiness is from someone’s heart, it is nothing to do with money.
什麼是幸福?如果一個人有很多錢，他就很開心了嗎?這兩個問題指出了錢和幸福的關係。今天，人們把金錢放在首位，他們努力工作來掙錢，因為沒有錢，他就無法做很多事情，確實，我們需要錢。當人們結婚的時候，他們首先要做的就是有足夠的錢去買房子，錢看起來是一切。然而在我看來，錢買不到幸福，我遇到過一些人，他們不富裕，但是他們活得自由，他們想搬到哪裡就哪裡，他們覺得很開心。所以幸福是從一個人的心裡發出來的，與金錢無關。
nowadays, increasingly individuals pay special attention to the topic the way to happiness. maybe some folks have a question that why “the way to happiness” becomes a hot word in the society.
we all know a lot of people consider their life are not happy. for students, the academic pressure, the enter the next higher school’s pressure and the comparison of the result are confused all the students every day. the graduate will worried about their job and payment in the going future. staffs may anxious the competition and the advance in the company. the retiree may worried about the endowment insurance and the healthy problem. therefore, a lot of problems like strife, contradiction have emeraged.
so, is that means only kids have a happy life or kids even have their own shadow we do not find it out?
in fect, still a lot of people consider their life are beatific surrounding us. you can see the sweet smile on their face and full of energy’s looks everyday.
you will have another question here. why these guys’ life are beatific all the time? they do not have any pressure or they won’t worried about anything?
in fect, these people know a secret, the way to happiness.
firstly, we know all the people must face a lot of pressure everyday, people know the secret have their own way to reduce their pressure and solve the problems. in front of the presure, they have a lot of methods just like drink a cup of tea, listen some light music or talk with their friends to share their mind and relax theirselves.
secondly, they have their own plan of everything such as a timetable include the time for working, the time for enjoying their life with wife, with husband and kids, the time for shopping and so on.. they just face the pressure durning the time for work and they use remaining time to enjoy their life and do some other things they like.
thirdly and the most siginificant things of all is that they do not worried about the pressure or the problems will happen in the going future and they have strong confidence to salve and to face all the challenges. they have a glorious vision in their mind.
to sum up, they optimistic faced everything. optimistic mind-set is the a short cut to the happiness. optimistic mind-set is the key to open the door to glorious.
the road to happiness
it is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. this is only true if you pursue it unwisely. gamblers at monte carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. so it is with happiness. if you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hangover. epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. his method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. for most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. but i think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness. if you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common.
the most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. but there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty. the whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly.
it had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recover, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. but when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. it is the simple things that really matter. if a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. if, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children’s noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen--a different diet, or more exercise, or what not. man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. this is a humble conclusion, but i cannot make myself disbelieve it. unhappy businessmen, i am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
thangk you.
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